Thursday’s decision to allow his New York sentencing to go forward is only the latest time the court has been asked to assess Trump’s power. Two votes were predictable.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.